A discourse intended to commemorate the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus; delivered at the request of the Historical Society in Massachusetts, on the 23d day of October, 1792, being the completion of the third century since that memorable event
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A discourse intended to commemorate the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus; delivered at the request of the Historical Society in Massachusetts, on the 23d day of October, 1792, being the completion of the third century since that memorable event
- Publication date
- 1792
- Topics
- Columbus, Christopher, Behaim, Martin, 1459-1507, Discoveries in geography, Bees, Human skin color
- Publisher
- Printed at the Apollo Press, in Boston, by Belknap and Hall, State Street
- Collection
- duke_libraries; americana
- Contributor
- Duke University Libraries
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 144.8M
A discourse on the discovery of America.--Ode for the 23d of October, 1792.--Dissertation I. On the circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients. Appendix: Table ... chronological detail of facts and opinions.--Dissertation II. An examination of the pretensions of Martin Behaim, to a discovery of America, prior to that of Christopher Columbus. Appendix: no. I. Letters from Paul a physician of Florence, to Christopher Columbus, concerning the discovery of the Indies. no. II. A chronological detail of discoveries made in the fifteenth century, connected with events in the life of Columbus.--Dissertation III. On the question, whether the honey bee is a native of America.--Dissertation IV. On the colour of the native Americans, and the recent population of this continent
- Addeddate
- 2011-06-30 13:55:50
- Associated-names
- Toscanelli, Paolo del Pozzo, 1397-1482
- Call number
- E B432DI
- Camera
- Canon 5D
- External-identifier
-
urn:oclc:record:367812649
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- discourseintende00belk
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t9w09zr7k
- Lccn
- 02007686
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- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.21
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL24779906M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL15871380W
- Page-progression
- lr
- Page_number_confidence
- 75
- Page_number_module_version
- 1.0.3
- Pages
- 142
- Ppi
- 400
- Scandate
- 20110630175621
- Scanner
- scribe1.durham.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- durham
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 1621764
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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